Paul Robeson Quotes
The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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(imitating Norman Bates) Mother, are you there? I love you! I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel!
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went 'Wow, it's not me!'
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That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.
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I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do.
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It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
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I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.
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I'm not here to hurt anyone or harm anyone.
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When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
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In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.
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It became obvious to me that the risk that I saw, and still feel, of losing the continuity of advice from the chief medical officer who has been immersed in this since the beginning of the outbreak.
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I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.
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As you put your sights on your goals — no matter how great and compelling they are — as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.
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The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
